
# Overview

This directory stores the data and code necessary to replicate [Miller and Weinberg (2017)](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA13333).

# Source
 
The data was shared by Nathan Miller (nathan.miller@georgetown.edu) and Matthew Weinberg (weinberg.133@osu.edu). 

# When/where obtained & original form of files

The data was shared by Nathan Miller (nathan.miller@georgetown.edu) and Matthew Weinberg (weinberg.133@osu.edu) through Dropbox with Jesse M. Shapiro in

* November 2020 after an email conversation between Nathan, Matthew, and Jesse. (`data.zip`)
* July 2022 after an e-mail conversation between Nathan, Matthew, Jesse, and Nano. (`final.zip`)

# Description

* `/orig`
  * `codes.zip`: replication codes provided by the authors [here](https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/2017/11/01/understanding-price-effects-millercoors-joint-venture).
  * `data.zip`: cleaned data used by the authors that they shared with Jesse M. Shapiro in November 2020.
  * `final.zip`: finalized cleaned data used by the authors that they shared with Jesse M. Shapiro in July 2022.
* `/data`
  * `blp_beer_revised_final.mat`: extracted from `final.zip`
  * `blp_iv_revised_final.mat`: extracted from `final.zip`
  * `demos.csv`: extracted from `data.zip` as `demosE.zip`
  * `demosSum.csv`: extracted from `codes.zip` as `demosSumE.zip`
* `/docs`
  * `Gmail - data from your JV paper.pdf`: E-mail correspondence with Miller and Weinberg.

# Notes

* After some exploration we learned that the files in `data.zip` weren't the right ones to replicate the final results in the paper. After an e-mail exchange with the authors in June and July 2022, we obtained the revised files in `final.zip`. See e-mail exchange for details.

